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Well, in fairness, I did have a RH chap tell me to my face several weeks ago that Linux needs to replicate the Windows registry model and stop using the /etc te
by pnathan 12y ago
Well, in fairness, I did have a RH chap tell me to my face several weeks ago that Linux needs to replicate the Windows registry model and stop using the /etc text file approach. So I have a certain sympathy for the idea of Red Hat conspiracy (what is a company anyway but a conspiracy to produce work & products for hire?).
- tracker1 12y agoROFLMAO... more and more applications in Windows are moving AWAY from the registry.. other than install/uninstall notations created by the installer, very few recent apps use the registry. Most use the global ProgramData or user's AppData paths for configuration. It simply works. I don't hate the registry... I'm just not in a hurry to see Linux adopt it. What's so bad about /etc/app/config or ~/.config/app/config? It works in pretty much every platform (though the paths may be slightly different). Windows does have both roaming and local data directories, which can be pretty nice (if you don't bloat them).
- digi_owl 12y agoOnly "reason" i could think of for going registry is so that it could be wrapped in an ACL. Yep, the Windows registry has its own ACL. Was bitten by that when trying (naively) to move an account's files between Windows installs. Logged in and found myself back at default settings, and changes not applying. I wonder if this shift in mentality has something to do with the M-I contracts.
- nitrogen 12y agoI was rather unhappy when Samba took this approach as well, ages ago (mimicking the registry as a configuration store, not just as a hack to talk to Windows systems).